Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-09-03

nAton is arranging for u lecture cour,
fur next winter.
The dcof mute tchool at Sioux Falls 0 eeus
September L.
Andrews opera company is making q tour
OF the terri tory.
,dheld has a nightwatchman since tue re-
cent burglBries.
Wa,trtown waats the Aberdeen, Bismarch
aud Northwestern.
MISS Lamsoa Of Aberdeen has departed for
India as a missionary.
The telegraph line from Bristol to Lake
Preston is completed.
No frost visited the region OF Huro4 our.
Ing the recent cold wave.
The cracker ~fsctory at Sioux Falls Is about
to commence operations.
Blunt expects the Manitoba railway on is
way from Aberdeen TO Pierre,
The territorial board Of equalization has
levied ii tag Of 2 $40 mills for the ensuing
year.
Much interest is excited at Watertown,
Huron and Sioux Falls over new railroad
p~roapec'e.
DeaGwood vigorously opposes the creation
81 the new county Of Mead with Sturg.s as the
county seat.
The Watertown paint factory is nearly com
pleted. The mills, engines and elevators ave
bei1g put in.
a report comes from Wyoming that the
to that territory.
The friends Of local option are making 40
IF RI to iave that question submitted ut the
next election.
he Watertown militia company IS drilling
every day. Tho tn%campment Is soon 10 be
| ned az Huron.
III first 'rost OF the season fell at Rediield
Tue day nigot. Corn and vegetables were
somewhat outraged.
Ar Jamestown. Delbert Buzzle, twelve
years o,d, accidentally shot and killed Bru e
Merry, aged four years.
Wheat al Sioux Falls is averaging about
twenty bushels to the acre according to The
verdict Of the thrashing machine.
The srt,sian well at Buffalo Gap has been
sunk 10 n deptn OF over $50 feet without
striking water. 1t will be continued down
ward.
The fastidious brick layers, employed on a
National bank building at Huron quit work
because a colOred man was put to work with
them.
Tb rasting has begun ip the vicinity OF
Mitchell, and wheat and oats are Welding
better than was expected. The former will
average eighteen bushels and the latter forty
dive To the acre.
Odt Of 25S persons admitted TO the Sioux
Fal.s penitentiary daring the last qladrenuiai
period 2l5 we're adiicl ed t. the use OF liquor.
This was a confession Of the prisoners them
selves, only forty-three claiming to b. ab-
staiuers.
Oitger Datrymple, the extensive north Da-
kota farmer, Gays wheat is not thrashing out
as much Within three or four bushels pr
acre as wa expected. Cass c)unty's yteld
viii b. but twelve or thirteen bushels per
acre.
Q. 7. G.idden, OF Miller, says forty acres cf
bis wheat averaged nineteen bushels per acre
ana he further estimates "tifty-tive acres OF his
corn will 20 forty-fve bushels 10 the acre,
and he does not brag over his neighoors
either.
According to the Chicago Farmers + .vlew,
Dakota leads In wheat, oats and coru, Nine
teen bushels per acre Is given as the average
of wheat IN fourteen counties. OF corn Kan.
sas has ~ per cent. Of 81 average crop, low
So per cent. and Dakota 1875 per cent.
Capt. Z. B Sears, the government engineer
who recently visited Yahkton to view the
Missouri river and fa.niliarize himself with
i:s habits, old NOT give the board OF trade any
satlsfactioD regarding the danger OF the river
cutting or It's liability TO cut into the Dakota
shore.
Tuesday afternoon 4. i. Smith, an old
time cItz n and leading merchant Of WShpe-
ION, while III with + yer sud delirious, got out
OF bed. aid lockiug the door secured a prun-
ing knife and, " Is thought, stood in froot of
q looking glass and cut his throat. He has
STAGE died.
A ieug ny Washington specIal stat = tna'
OK GOV. o d@ay f. Z ting very wesltry ~ his
lca.s Sin Washington real e.tate The aricle
in q yer, plausible manner goes on to ste'e
that the az 1Cverpoi designs to return 80 la
tota to i've, ani viii sttcnpt to cap.ure
Uli:c3 stats seuat1rship.
Whilc Mrs. j II. Miller, OF Warner, was
lighting the gasplirc s.ogeher clothing caught
frc ana burned her body so severely that she
died four hours aftarward. She was conscious
20 the last and seemed to suffer 10 pain
after the first ten minute she leaves a
heart hr ken husband ard a pair Of iufart
twins to mourn her loss.
Yaukton Pres: Rev. Father Redmond, OF
the Catholic church OF Yankton, has received
reliable information TO the effec that Bishop
| NArty's future home will be Yankton. The
locstion Of th" bishop OF the diocese Of south
Dakota has recently been presented TO the
pope for his consideration, and that he has
decided IN favor OF Ydnkton Is very much Of
a ompliment TO Yankton, which becomes the
| zee city Of ne oiCcese.
An article fc0m Fargo appeared In the Chi
cago Tribune, urging that license was In the
! line OF prohibition, II high, and In the nature
OF q the clud,mn&tory rather than iustifying
the traffic. A, q union meeting In Fargo on
sunday night The Congregational munster,
uho "a Graiical tr3hihitionist, took occasion
20 rldiculr Mi. view, while speaking Ia the
Preshvtrrisn lu'pit. After he had concluded